Please learn the difference between voter fraud and election fraud.
Voters need to be on the rolls regardless of whether or not they have photo ID.
That means, in clear text, that your cited example of "voter fraud" cannot be voter fraud - it can only be election fraud.
Something that voter ID will not help with.
Came here to say something like this. Surprised that it is so low and so few votes compared to automation.
Our system goes a little further and we've had pretty good success with it: send them a link beforehand where they can enter the bug. Make the important fields required and don't accept bug reports any other way. Some of the users then just stop sending in bug reports and some fill things in with meaningless information, but generally the quality of the reports went way up.
This. I'm a hardcore emacs user - I wrote my own variant in TECO on a PDP-11 called "MINE" (unoriginally named after FINE - FINE Is Not Emacs) back around 1980, but I gave in and learned the basics of vi a few years back, simply because emacs isn't always available, and sometimes "echo whatever >> temp.sh" just won't cut it.
What high school did you go to? I went to an excellent high school: the year I graduated (1979), 1/3 of the graduating class were PSAT/NMSQT finalists (note: semi-finalists are in the 99th percentile). I was one of three students that took Calculus BC (the most advanced math they had), and Fourier and Z-Transforms were definitely not covered. I did learn about Fourier in the Summer of '77, but it was entirely unrelated to school (a project for a university professor).
Comcast hierarchy, who said there was no other solution and I had to pay $3 per month for each box. Being a municipality, we are entitled to free expanded basic cable as a part of the franchise agreement back in 1982.
It looks to me, like Mr. Government employee has a point, and that Comcast is contractually obligated to provide those "$3 per month" boxes for free - part of the cost of getting the franchise.
Maybe then you guys will learn to count and balance your budgets.
While the IT guy generally isn't responsible for balancing the budget, as you seem to think, he actually is doing a good job of it here by trying to get rid of unnecessary costs.
What would you have him do? Roll over and take the added costs lying down?
You're right. I only read half the article and missed the note (I think the note currently at the top was not there the first time I read it - I would have noticed).
While I've got someone who knows what they're talking about: do you know where I can get the raw data and/or the precise methods used in various astronomy articles? Most of these simplified articles never mention compensation for gravitomagnetic effects, and it was found a few years back, that gravitomagnetism is, at least in some cases, considerably stronger than expected.
You've got to pay attention to what I post: I live in Germany, I'm not German. However, I will say, while my boss does laugh at the Daily Show, he utterly fails to comprehend Monty Python.
That doesn't apply to the described scenario: in the described scenario, the attacker already has his gun pointed at the victim, whereas the statistics apply to every type of attack, including with fists. If you try and pull a gun while the attacker has the gun trained on you, your chances of being shot are very high.
How can you have stronger reasoning, than something that's based on the limits of what modern physics can understand (thermodynamics and quantum mechanics)? We have developed quantum computers.
The previous limits he is referencing were also based on the limits of what modern physics could understand - just making a faulty assumption. He's questioning the assumptions here, too.
There's skepticism, and then there is metaphysical woowoo babble. You are generating the latter. Kill yourself.
He is generating the former. Take your own advice.
Why would tidal locking be unlikely at sun-earth L1? (mind you, L1 and L2 are not quite stable, so it would be unlikely that a large object would be there at all) But there is no reason that such an unlikely object could not be tidally locked with the earth. (and sun)
I was somehow thinking, that with the balancing of the Earth's and Sun's gravitational pulls, that tidal forces would cancel, which is on a moments reflection, wrong. Sorry.
But I think what you were getting it is that an object that is residing in the L2 point, and is tidally locked with the earth would have a far side that never sees light from the earth or sun, and thus could be very cold.
I was thinking that if L2 were inside the umbra (it isn't), then none of the Moon would ever see the Sun or Earthshine (it would always be facing the dark side of Earth). Regardless of rotation or axis orientation.
Ah! Of course, how could I have missed it! I know about Moonshine: great granddaddy made his own. I also know a lot about Mormons (the LDS Church) - I just don't generally associate them with being teetotalers: they are many other things, too. Full disclosure: I'm a Baha'i, and hence also a teetotaler.
Urm? If it were at L1, the same thing would happen that happens at a solar eclipse. The Moon gets light from both sides. Nearly the whole Moon is illuminated. Unless the rotational axis of the Moon is near perfectly in the plane perpendicular to the line between Earth and Sun at that point, even the poles will be illuminated.
Is that what you mean, or do you mean something else?
If it were at L1, then tidal locking with the Earth would be unlikely, and so a well aligned axis would also be unlikely.
These craters are at Luna's South pole. Their interiors are shadowed both from the sun and from the Earth. Think about it. If Earthshine could reach them so could sunlight.
You're right. I should have done my homework.
However, you are wrong about shaded by from the Sun necessarily implying shaded from Earth, depending on orbit, rotation and tilt, up to half of the moon could be continually shaded from the Sun without being shaded from Earth.
I'm no astrophysicist, but I remember seeing a video a couple years back that said Pluto gets much less light than the moon gets from earthshine. Earthshine should be warming up those crevices two weeks out of every four. So, does anybody know why that wouldn't make the crevices warmer than Pluto?
This is a well known effect known as "Risk Compensation" (Wikipedia). The most famous study showing the effect was on a fleet of taxis in Munich equipped with Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS).
Oooh! That is excellent! Now if they only did that with real hardware - it's fun to use a bread board, later a soldering iron and finally to watch the lights blink on something you've built yourself.:-)
Actually, I did learn acoustic theory before I learned to play the guitar, but I think you're missing my point:
A person learning something new should start at the lowest level needed for understanding and performing correctly. My guitar teacher started with holding the guitar correctly and making a few chords before going on with melody, theory, etc. In the case of programming, I believe that base level is assembler, based on my own experience and in interaction with other programmers who have and have not learned assembler.
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Please learn the difference between voter fraud and election fraud.
Voters need to be on the rolls regardless of whether or not they have photo ID.
That means, in clear text, that your cited example of "voter fraud" cannot be voter fraud - it can only be election fraud.
Something that voter ID will not help with.
S*** happens. People accidentally delete emails they did not intend to. There's no reason to be a dick about it - it takes seconds to resend.
Our system goes a little further and we've had pretty good success with it: send them a link beforehand where they can enter the bug. Make the important fields required and don't accept bug reports any other way. Some of the users then just stop sending in bug reports and some fill things in with meaningless information, but generally the quality of the reports went way up.
This. I'm a hardcore emacs user - I wrote my own variant in TECO on a PDP-11 called "MINE" (unoriginally named after FINE - FINE Is Not Emacs) back around 1980, but I gave in and learned the basics of vi a few years back, simply because emacs isn't always available, and sometimes "echo whatever >> temp.sh" just won't cut it.
What high school did you go to? I went to an excellent high school: the year I graduated (1979), 1/3 of the graduating class were PSAT/NMSQT finalists (note: semi-finalists are in the 99th percentile). I was one of three students that took Calculus BC (the most advanced math they had), and Fourier and Z-Transforms were definitely not covered. I did learn about Fourier in the Summer of '77, but it was entirely unrelated to school (a project for a university professor).
Most of the TVs in the town have digital tuners per last years a2d conversion of the airwaves
Does that not make them "digital cable ready" TVs?
Comcast hierarchy, who said there was no other solution and I had to pay $3 per month for each box. Being a municipality, we are entitled to free expanded basic cable as a part of the franchise agreement back in 1982.
It looks to me, like Mr. Government employee has a point, and that Comcast is contractually obligated to provide those "$3 per month" boxes for free - part of the cost of getting the franchise.
Maybe then you guys will learn to count and balance your budgets.
While the IT guy generally isn't responsible for balancing the budget, as you seem to think, he actually is doing a good job of it here by trying to get rid of unnecessary costs.
What would you have him do? Roll over and take the added costs lying down?
While I've got someone who knows what they're talking about: do you know where I can get the raw data and/or the precise methods used in various astronomy articles? Most of these simplified articles never mention compensation for gravitomagnetic effects, and it was found a few years back, that gravitomagnetism is, at least in some cases, considerably stronger than expected.
There was this recent article on a popular news site for geeks - ah, here it is: 90% of Universe Found Hiding in Plain View.
You've got to pay attention to what I post: I live in Germany, I'm not German. However, I will say, while my boss does laugh at the Daily Show, he utterly fails to comprehend Monty Python.
My current boss. I live in Germany.
That doesn't apply to the described scenario: in the described scenario, the attacker already has his gun pointed at the victim, whereas the statistics apply to every type of attack, including with fists. If you try and pull a gun while the attacker has the gun trained on you, your chances of being shot are very high.
How can you have stronger reasoning, than something that's based on the limits of what modern physics can understand (thermodynamics and quantum mechanics)? We have developed quantum computers.
The previous limits he is referencing were also based on the limits of what modern physics could understand - just making a faulty assumption. He's questioning the assumptions here, too.
There's skepticism, and then there is metaphysical woowoo babble. You are generating the latter. Kill yourself.
He is generating the former. Take your own advice.
Why would tidal locking be unlikely at sun-earth L1? (mind you, L1 and L2 are not quite stable, so it would be unlikely that a large object would be there at all) But there is no reason that such an unlikely object could not be tidally locked with the earth. (and sun)
I was somehow thinking, that with the balancing of the Earth's and Sun's gravitational pulls, that tidal forces would cancel, which is on a moments reflection, wrong. Sorry.
But I think what you were getting it is that an object that is residing in the L2 point, and is tidally locked with the earth would have a far side that never sees light from the earth or sun, and thus could be very cold.
I was thinking that if L2 were inside the umbra (it isn't), then none of the Moon would ever see the Sun or Earthshine (it would always be facing the dark side of Earth). Regardless of rotation or axis orientation.
Ah! Of course, how could I have missed it! I know about Moonshine: great granddaddy made his own. I also know a lot about Mormons (the LDS Church) - I just don't generally associate them with being teetotalers: they are many other things, too. Full disclosure: I'm a Baha'i, and hence also a teetotaler.
Urm? If it were at L1, the same thing would happen that happens at a solar eclipse. The Moon gets light from both sides. Nearly the whole Moon is illuminated. Unless the rotational axis of the Moon is near perfectly in the plane perpendicular to the line between Earth and Sun at that point, even the poles will be illuminated.
Is that what you mean, or do you mean something else?
If it were at L1, then tidal locking with the Earth would be unlikely, and so a well aligned axis would also be unlikely.
An object at Earth-Sun L1 tidally locked to the Earth would see Earthshine only.
Ah! I totally overlooked that possibility. There are two problems with that: it is L2, not L1; L2 is (just) outside the Earth's umbra. The Wikipedia article on Lagrangian points (L2).
> However, you are wrong about shaded by from the Sun necessarily implying > shaded from Earth...
Not for the general case: consider the Earth-Sun L1 point. For the Moon specifically.
Sorry, you lost me as to what the Lagrange Points have to do with it.
I was thinking, if the Moon were tidally locked to the Sun instead of Earth (I know, not possible), or had one pole always tilted toward the Sun.
These craters are at Luna's South pole. Their interiors are shadowed both from the sun and from the Earth. Think about it. If Earthshine could reach them so could sunlight.
You're right. I should have done my homework.
However, you are wrong about shaded by from the Sun necessarily implying shaded from Earth, depending on orbit, rotation and tilt, up to half of the moon could be continually shaded from the Sun without being shaded from Earth.
The crater is a mormon , it does not consume earthshine.
Sorry, a "mormon"? Is that a typo? I've never seen a crater going door-to-door in a suit. ;-)
I'm no astrophysicist, but I remember seeing a video a couple years back that said Pluto gets much less light than the moon gets from earthshine. Earthshine should be warming up those crevices two weeks out of every four. So, does anybody know why that wouldn't make the crevices warmer than Pluto?
Having never done this before, the government is bound to have problems. All of them do when they try new things.
Like a public health care option?
Yes. Also like the space program. Also like arpanet (early internet). Also like slashdot.
This is a well known effect known as "Risk Compensation" (Wikipedia). The most famous study showing the effect was on a fleet of taxis in Munich equipped with Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS).
Oooh! That is excellent! Now if they only did that with real hardware - it's fun to use a bread board, later a soldering iron and finally to watch the lights blink on something you've built yourself. :-)
Actually, I did learn acoustic theory before I learned to play the guitar, but I think you're missing my point:
A person learning something new should start at the lowest level needed for understanding and performing correctly. My guitar teacher started with holding the guitar correctly and making a few chords before going on with melody, theory, etc. In the case of programming, I believe that base level is assembler, based on my own experience and in interaction with other programmers who have and have not learned assembler.